Would you consider this a genuine GOT spoiler?

[SerBrienneofTarth]

Game of Thrones related.

Group work chat, I posted a gif of Thormund in a new scene from this weeks episode. Innocent context, no plot points or anything.

BUT then remembered that a Co worker has decided not to watch the new series every week but rather to marathon them all when it's all over and so is trying to avoid spoilers. Which is fine, though it means we can't talk about it over lunch.

I immediately apologised light heartedly on the chat, but should I be worried?

Would you be pissed off?

Last year it was left unsaid as to whether Thormund survived (though if anyone actually believed they were gonna kill off a fan favourite offscreen ill eat my hat) so essentially I confirmed he's still alive and kicking.

Her choice to watch it in one go. I would find it unreasonable if my collegues decided I couldnt speak about something that that was already aired in real time.

Honestly I find it hard enough to avoid spoilers from the Sunday night 2am showing until Monday night.

I don't know how it's even feasible to avoid it to the end. Its everywhere.

Yes I would consider it a spoiler. At the end of the day it’s a tv show (that I don’t watch!) so I couldn’t be that annoyed though. In my head I would be raging! A lighthearted hearted apology would annoy me though as it is so clearly a non-apology.

Your colleague has to accept that if he isn’t watching, he will be spoilered. It drives me mad when people bitch about spoilers because they’ve chosen not to watch something real time. A film is different because there’s a period of weeks in which a person might see it, but for tv if you’re choosing to hold off for ages then you accept the risk of being spoilered. So YANBU!

If it was me I would probably just inwardly groan but say absolutely nothing. It will be almost impossible for co-worker to avoid spoilers! It's hard enough avoiding it on Monday morning after the Sunday one.

I'm sure Tormund was in the trailer for S8 anyway, wasn't he?

Love the name by the way, OP

Tormund was in the trailer for the new s season months ago and if you didn't give away any plot points I don't see the issue. If he's choosing not to watch it with everyone else he has to expect some spoilers and this one is very very minor

I honestly couldn't believe it was still available! I've nc'd cos it's a fairly identifiable situation.

I'd say Co worker has been avoiding trailers too tbh.

.... Siiiigh.....

If they’ve seen up to the end of the last season I don’t think that counts as a spoiler- all you’re telling him is Tormund doesn’t die in the first two episodes.

Have to say, I love Tormund as well and I have absolutely no inside knowledge so this is idle speculation not spoiling, but I can’t see him (or most of them) surviving. The only ones I think are safe are Jon, Sansa and possibly Bran.

Christ, hope he doesn’t see your username then! Also, probably best not to mention that it was Kristen that shot JR, you can never be too careful

I wouldn't say so, because its in the trailers, and also I don't think its a huge deal - he's a big character and I doubt they'd have killed him off-screen in that way, so it was pretty predictable.

Also I think that if you're going to watch something that far behind (if I remember correctly there are 8 episodes, so by the end he'll be watching ep1 8 weeks after it aired?) you just have to accept you'll hear some spoilers, particularly on such a big show that there is always lots about online. You can't dictate other people's conversations for 8 weeks.

I wouldn't worry about it tbh. You didn't do it deliberately and you didn't actually give anything away!

So how should I address it in work tomorrow?

Cos I have to say something, surely? Don't want to come across as a dick by being breezy about it but at the same time this really isn't something I want to grovel over.

Your colleague is being very unreasonable. Just wanted to share this:

I wouldn't consider that specifically a spoiler because it never really occurred to me he was dead.

But in general, yes I would say that kind of thing is a spoiler - but that's the risk you take if you decide to wait and binge! I am watching in real time but haven't watched the trailer and I avoid the previews, as I don't like to know what's coming. But I don't get annoyed if other people mention it.

I think basic consideration - eg checking everyone present is up to date before starting a conversation about details - is enough.

re how to address it - I wouldn't bring it up. I might be irritated if it had happened to me, but I wouldn't really blame you - it's reasonable to expect people not to spoil plot points, but you can't expect blanket silence on it.

Can you be my friend OP? I want all the Tormund and Beric pics